Two Truths and a Lie

[Piratecat]

3. My likeness has appeared on the covers of several different RPG products.

Which ones?

 

[Wik]

Sounds like fun! Here's the blargney edition:

Fact 1: I have over a thousand minis on display at my friend's house.
Fact 2: I've played a D&D campaign in French.
Fact 3: All of my characters' names are puns.​

The Lie:
[sblock]Fact 3 (only most of them are puns. )[/sblock]

Ha. I totally got that one.

These are a lot of fun.

Here's mine (they're all a little scary!):

Fact One - one time, I GMed for a bunch of my friends who were high on acid at the time (I wasn't, mind you). When I described the ogre they encountered, one of the players was so freaked out that she started screaming, and threw a beer bottle at my head.

Fact Two - The one time I tried running Forgotten Realms, I played with a guy who had read all the Forgotten Realms novels. After an hour or so of dealing with *my* version of Sembia, this player got so upset that he started screaming at me. He eventually started punching me and other players at the table (he had an anger problem)

Fact Three - During a DARK SUN game, I had a player running a half-giant that was nigh unstoppable (he had Disintegrate as a random psionic power). Eventually, after throwing numerous fights at him, I threw my hands in the air and hit him with a Kirre (hoping to at least inflict a bit of damage on him). The Kirre fought remarkably well, and knocked the half-giant from 70-something HP to 3. The player got so upset that he threw a d20 at my head, and managed to peg my DARK SUN DM's shield, nearly knocking a hole straight through the cardboard (and ruining the mul painting). He wound up killing the kirre.

[sblock=Lie]Fact Two. I did run an FR game once, though. And I did have a player with anger problems like that. And I did have a guy that was an FR nut. But it was all at different times.[/sblock]

I wanted to add the one about how I found out (after posting on EN world and talking to a fellow poster for a few months) that I lived only a minute's walk away. Or the time I ran a Call of Cthulu game and, the second the monster was revealed to the PCs, all the power went out. Or this one time, when were playing BATTLETECH...

...so many fun stories to share, eh?

 

[Yalius]

Oh, heck, I'll give it a try.

1. I once DM'd for a group that consisted of Speedy, Glaphre, Assur, and Balder... and those were the players' real names.

2. I have played D&D inside a WWII-era Japanese communications bunker on an island in the south pacific using a kerosene lamp as the only light source, while sitting in the gunnery seat of a rusted-out artillery piece.

3. I once fell asleep while narrating a battle, and somehow my players found themselves fighting Cobra (from GI Joe) in a running battle in Nome, Alaska, while Dinosaurs stampeded around them. I didn't know what happened until I woke up about half an hour later, and had to be filled in on what I was saying.
[sblock]Number 2 is the lie. We were playing Magic.[/sblock]

 

[Roudi]

#1: I once played in a 9-hour marathon one-shot where each character was a Japanese middle school student and the whole point of the game was to kill one another. I won.

#2: I had one player ruin a superhero campaign in the first session because he managed to get a 35 Dexterity and believed he ought to have the powers of a god as a result.

#3: As an RPG professional, I have numerous credits to my name, with a reputation of being interesting and punctual.

[sblock=The Lie]#3. So very definitely #3.[/sblock]

 

[John Cooper]

Which ones?

Deborah Balsam of Dog Soul Press invited me to do a "Cooper scrub" of the SRD monsters, and is releasing the results in a series of PDFs called the "Cooper's Corrected Creature Codex" line. The first three in the set are available so far, and each one features a Claudio Pozas illustration of me in a lab coat, sitting at a podium, cranking my way through a book of monster stats, while various creatures (an ankheg, a troglodyte, and a hydra) wait in line for their turn. Claudio's done his usual outstanding job, and I couldn't be happier with the results.

 

[orsal]

1) Orsal, my first charcter, was the only character from my 1/e days (high school) who ever developed any personality to speak of.
2) When Orsal became a Lord (remember those 1/e level names?) he called his fiefdom Lasro, an uncharacteristic bit of wordplay for a guy with Int 6.
3) Orsal was a really dislikable fellow. He was egotistical, and egoistical, the projection of those facets of my bratty 13-year-old self I had the tact to suppress in real life.

The lie:

Spoiler

#2.

 

[Owldragon]

Fact 2: I've gotten laid as a direct result of D&D.

2. During college I once had a roleplaying session in which we seduced a dragon disresolve into real sex (we continued in character)

Wow, I really need to start gaming more!

 

[Owldragon]

I suppose if I'm going to post a response here, I should post my own truths and lie...

1. I once DMed a D&D gaming session for two players who were taking the same CS course, and ran an entire encounter with cultists based on the professors and summoned monsters based on programming concepts (such as recursive loops that rolled like wheels towards the characters and tried to snag them).

2. For my senior project in high school English, I wrote a research paper on roleplaying games, but barely got a passing grade just because of the subject.

3. I once played in a Shadowrun campaign where each of the characters started of separately, and then the GM tried to bring all of the characters together gradually as a natural progression of each character following his or her separate goals. (Much like the show Heroes.) After 3 months, all the characters ended up in the same place in the same time, at which point the GM decided to take a break for a week or two. The campaign was never picked up again.

The lie: [sblock]2 is a lie. The teacher loved the paper, and I got an A.[/sblock]

 

[TheAuldGrump]

Hmmm, let me think over my nefarious history, then make something up...

1. I have never run a published adventure.
2. I once ran a game for a bunch of naked people at a pagan gathering, even though I am not pagan.
3. I started running games before all but one of my players were even born.

[sblock]1 is the lie - while I don't run straight out of the book I have run published adventures and enjoyed it. Soon I am running Expedition to Castle Ravenloft... for Spycraft 2.0 and set during WWII.

And a general statement about running games at a pagan gathering - the likelihood of seeing someone naked is inversely proportional to how likely you are to want to see them naked.[/sblock]

The Auld Grump

 

[Rabelais]

And a general statement about running games at a pagan gathering - the likelihood of seeing someone naked is inversely proportional to how likely you are to want to see them naked.


QFT brother